This report - Investment opportunities in the Tanzanian forest industry and bioenergy sectors - identifies investment opportunities in selected clusters in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania. It assesses the future demand for plantation wood products, current and potential new plantation resources and proposes viable investments which would work toward filling future gaps in the market.
The report is part of a study that also includes a diagnostic climate investment assessment of Tanzania. Together, these reports will form the foundation of a roadmap the Tanzanian government can adopt in order to provide an enabling
environment for the development of the wood products industry and to draft an information package for potential investors in the Tanzanian forestry sector.
Adopting a demand-driven approach, the study assessed the demand for plantation wood products and identified gaps in the nation’s wood-production and wood-processing capacities. Forest products demand was forecasted by using demand elasticities based on long-term observations of the responsive of this demand to GDP growth.
